If…

…you feel bad, squat. If you feel good, squat. If you’re not sure, you should probably squat.

Seriously folks, Squatting heavy weight makes you strong and durable. It also helps your flexibility and mobility. In fact, squatting helps you get on and off the toilet, in and out of your car, on and off the couch, pick up your kids…see where this is going?

Performing the squat at the gym is way more important than most people think. You hear many of your friends talk about a strong core and how they achieve their strong core through abdominal twists and sit ups. The fact is, simply standing under a bar with 300 pounds on it requires way more core strength than doing a sit up.

Now don’t misunderstand, we do need to do sit ups. but developing a strong posterior chain and midline, core to most people, is way more useful in life. You get stronger, have better posture, and may even be better looking by squatting at the gym.

So…today, we squat.

Do you know the exercise that requires the most core strength? Yep, the squat.

Low bar back squat
8-5-3-3-1 at 70%-75-80-85- and 90%

Then
30-20-10
Double unders
Sit ups.

Extra credit
3×10 good mornings
3×10 reverse hyper

See? We got to squat AND do sit ups.

Woohoo!